2019 Preconference Seminars

Get in-depth, expert-led training on the latest GIS technologies before the conference so you can build upon your new knowledge at UC. Sign up when registering for the UC or add seminars afterward by calling 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST).

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

ArcGIS Enterprise: Configuring a Base Deployment | 2-Day Seminar

July 06 - 07, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $745.00

Level: Intermediate

Length: 2 Days

Learn administration essentials to install and configure an ArcGIS Enterprise base deployment that enables individuals to securely access, create, and share geospatial resources. You will learn how to license and install the four software components of a base deployment and ensure system security and performance. Presenters: Katy Dalton and Will Elsholz

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro | 2-Day Seminar

July 06 –
07, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $745.00

Level: Advanced

Length: 2 Days

In this seminar, experienced ArcMap users will discover more streamlined visualization, editing, and analysis workflows using ArcGIS Pro. Learn how to migrate existing maps, models and scripts from ArcMap into ArcGIS Pro —often times without any required conversion. Through discussions, activities, and hands-on exercises, you will start applying your ArcMap workflows to ArcGIS Pro with ease. Presenters: Mark Stewart and Katie White.

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Preparing for Change Workshop | 2-Day Seminar

July 06 - 07, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $745.00

Level: Beginner

Length: 2 Days

Studies show that effective change management increases your likelihood of project success by 600 percent (Prosci benchmark survey, 2016). This session will help you build a plan to support the following goals:

Understand the strategic implications of ArcGIS technology adoption at all levels of your organization.

Establish a support and sponsorship framework to ensure long-term success.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the impacted stakeholders.

Enable effective communications by understanding strategic implications from the context of executives, managers, and employees.

Presenters: David Schneider and Michael Green

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Python Scripting for GIS Users | 2-Day Seminar

July 06 –
07, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $745.00

Level: Intermediate

Length: 2 Days

Python scripts can reduce the time spent on complex or repetitive tasks, enabling GIS staff to be more efficient and productive. This session will teach you how to create Python scripts to automate tasks related to data management, feature editing, geoprocessing, and analysis. Also, you will learn how to share your Python scripts so that your key GIS workflows are accessible to others. Presenters: Alan Coyle and Brittney White

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Getting Started with ArcGIS Urban

July 6, 2019

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $325.00

Level: Beginner

Length: Half Day

Around the world, organizations use GIS to visualize the built environment, make smarter plans, engage stakeholders, and foster vibrant communities. Government leaders, partners, and citizens increasingly expect engaging online maps of their community that convey planning information in an easy-to-understand way. Innovative cities are starting to utilize 3D mapping of zoning and plausible future conditions to communicate effectively to non-experts through a visual representation of what can be developed. Attend this workshop for an overview of ArcGIS Urban, an Esri product initiative to create transformative, web-based tools for orchestrating urban development Plans and Projects. Use ArcGIS Urban’s native 3D capabilities to understand the local real estate development “pipeline” of active projects and zoning-based development potential for any parcel within a planning study area. Explore the use of Urban’s geodesign tools to create and evaluate multiple alternatives or scenarios, using metrics and performance indicators as design feedback. Use the same 3D scenes to engage with Plan and Project influencers and decision-makers. All of this informs an evaluation of the capacity for additional urban growth, locations likely to support this grown, and the potential impacts of urban policy choices and market forces. Presenters: Christine Ma, Silvia Casas, Jessie Hanson-McFarlane, and Brooks Patrick.

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Image Analysis

July 6, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: Intermediate

Length: 1 Day

This hands-on seminar will help image analysts and scientists who want to know the best way to extract information from imagery. The following will be covered:

Best practices for image analysis using ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS Image Analyst extension as well as ArcGIS Image Server raster analytics

Faster functionality for image processing that is performed on the desktop or server

Image classification using pixel- and object-based machine learning

Deep learning on imagery for object detection and semantic segmentation

This seminar will also provide an overview of using image mensuration and stereo display and working with full motion video and oriented imagery. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptops and will have the opportunity to follow along through a number of exercises. Presenters: Vinay Viswambharan, Julia Lenhardt, and Deng Ding

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Image Management and Dissemination

July 6, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: Intermediate

Length: 1 Day

This seminar will focus on the duties of Imagery Asset Managers who are responsible for making the imagery in their organizations accessible for visualization and analysis. The best practices for image management and dissemination on premises and in the cloud will be explained. The following subjects will be covered: Fundamentals of imagery and raster formats and products and the mosaic dataset as an optimum model for image management. How to create mosaic datasets for a range of different source including pre-processed orthophotos, medium- and high-resolution satellite imagery, elevation and lidar data frame camera from aerial and drone platforms, scientific data. Best practices for oriented imagery will also be covered. Optimizing the format of data. Setting up ArcGIS Image Server on premises and the cloud. Optimizing and scaling image services. Presenters: Peter Becker and Emily Windahl.

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Mapping Excellence Bootcamp

July 6, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: All Levels

Length: 1 Day

Map excellence is the achievement of clear and useful maps that satisfy their stated purpose. An excellent map is visually interesting, provides meaningful context, and draws laser focus to a topic. A good map becomes excellent when it is easy to replicate and update. GIS managers and analysts are in a unique position to accelerate map excellence in their organizations. Through examples, we will show how a map's journey to excellence is affected by the constraints that we know about and manage as well as ones we may not recognize. We will discuss pragmatic ways to engage your teams in the discovery, discussion, and implementation of map excellence methods. Along the way, we will invite attendees to share their experiences on this topic. Presenters: John Nelson, Andrew Skinner, Jim Herries, Dan Pisut, and Wes Jones

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Map Production from Imagery

July 6, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: Intermediate

Length: 1 Day

This hands-on seminar will assist users who want to create map products such as orthophotos, digital terrain models, and 3D models from imagery. The best practices for working with drone, aerial, and satellite imagery using orthophoto mapping will be presented. The following subjects will be covered:

Using Drone2Map for ArcGIS to create 2D and 3D products from drone imagery collections

Using orthophoto mapping in ArcGIS Pro to create accurately create blocks from drone, aerial, and satellite imagery as well as make digital terrain models and orthophotos

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptops and will have the opportunity to follow along through a number of exercises. Presenters: Tony Mason, Steve Lambert, Jon Pedder, and Cody Benkelman

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Geospatial Deep Learning

July 7, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: Beginner

Length: 1 Day

Nvidia and Esri are teaming up again to bring a hands-on Geospatial focused Deep Learning pre-conference seminar this year at the Esri User Conferance. During this seminar you will learn how ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise can be combined with Deep Learning to automatically find and classify various objects in satellite imagery.

Upon completion, you will understand how to use ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, and Deep Learning with ArcGIS API for Python in an integrated way to be able to:

- Create and prepare training data for use in a deep learning framework such as TensorFlow or PyTorch, using ArcGIS Pro,

- Use the trained model from ArcGIS Pro: visualize and perform further analyses with the resulting object sets.

- Publish the trained model to ArcGIS Enterprise as a Raster Analytics inference service and run object detections from the MapViewer web application, and Jupyter Notebook with the code from ArcGIS API for Python.

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Field Operations and ArcGIS

July 7, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: Beginner

Length: 1 Day

Learn how ArcGIS helps your organization optimize field operations by: taking ArcGIS maps offline into smart devices using ArcGIS Publisher Extension and Explorer for ArcGIS; coordinating your field workers with Workforce for ArcGIS and Navigator for ArcGIS; improving locational awareness by knowing the location of key staff and equipment with Tracker for ArcGIS; and optimizing data capture with Collector and Survey123 for ArcGIS; building effective operation dashboards with Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS. Presenters: Derek Law, Ismael Chivite, James Tedrick, and Doug Morgenthaler

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Getting Started with Insights for ArcGIS

July 7, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: Beginner

Length: 1 Day

Get an introduction to Insights for ArcGIS—a web-based, data analytics workbench built to explore spatial and non-spatial data. Learn how to use Insights to dynamically visualize and analyze data from multiple sources on maps, charts, tables, and more. Investigate a spatial problem in depth by interactively applying powerful analysis tools for deeper insights. Presenters: Jack Horton and Robert LeClair

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Learn How to Perform Statistical Spatial Data Analysis with R and ArcGIS

July 7, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: All Levels

Length: 1 Day

Through a series of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, this seminar will teach you how to leverage the spatial analysis and visualization capabilities of ArcGIS with the statistical capabilities of R. We will be exploring all the ways the open source R-ArcGIS bridge provides seamless and efficient software integration workflows. We will take in-depth dives into the functionality of transferring data between ArcGIS and R, creating R script tools, sharing your work, managing and working with different flavors of R, removing computational bottlenecks and more, with a focus on the entire R ecosystem. Laptops will be provided to gain first-hand experience working with this technology. Presenters: Steve Kopp, Shaun Walbridge, Mark Janikas, and Orhun Aydin

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Mastering Smart Form Design with Survey123 and XLSForm

July 7, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: Intermediate

Length: 1 Day

In this one-day hands-on seminar you will learn how to use the XLSForm specification to build smart forms with Survey123 for ArcGIS. We will introduce the XLSForm specification and will dive into advanced techniques to implement custom data business validation rules, conditional statements to control the visibility of portions of your form, auto-calculation rules for attributes in your features and much more. Presenters: James Tedrick and Philip Wilson.

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Exploring the ArcGIS Enterprise Data Management Landscape

July 7, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Hands-On Seminar Fee: $495.00

Level: Intermediate

Length: 1 Day

Data is an integral part of GIS, providing the foundation for your mapping, analysis and decision-making workflows. Where you store your data impacts how you access, edit, validate, secure, and scale it. This seminar will focus on the different options and functionality available in ArcGIS for data storage, from the ArcGIS Data Store to enterprise geodatabases to big data storage and cloud stores. Hands-on publishing, sharing and collaboration exercises will give you practical examples of how you can leverage these options to meet your business and GIS needs. The session will expand upon the topics outlined in the Data in ArcGIS whitepaper. Presenters: Hilary Curtis, James Gough, Shannon Shields, and Tom Shippee

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

Implementing ArcGIS: A Project Manager's Perspective

July 7, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Seminar Fee: $375.00

Level: Intermediate

Length: 1 Day

This seminar will focus on defining and implementing an enterprise ArcGIS project from a project management perspective. Presenters will discuss best practices for Enterprise GIS project implementation, including how to effectively leverage the ArcGIS platform. Topics will cover all key project stages, from visioning through deployment. Presenters: Craig Venker, Jennifer Prather, and Lana Tylka.

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS

ArcGIS Performance: Tuning, Testing, and Monitoring

July 7, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST)

San Diego, CA

Seminar Fee: $375.00

Level: Advanced

Length: 1 Day

This seminar will discuss the process of ArcGIS performance tuning, testing, and monitoring. This includes methodology and tools for analyzing the key performance factors and the root cause of typical performance problems associated with an enterprise GIS implementation. In addition, you will learn ArcGIS Monitor configuration and diagnosing performance, uptime, and infrastructure problems. Presenters: Andrew Sakowicz, Frank Pizzi, and Aaron Lopez.

Additional registration and fee required. You must be registered for User Conference to register. Please contact 1-888-377-4576 between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (PST) to add a preconference seminar to your registration.